Common Amorian
| Common Amorian | |
|---|---|
| Language family | Agayyeuryn Languages |
| Writing system | Peasant's Writing, Charcoal Tongue |
| Official status | |
| Spoken in | Amoria |
| Speaker | |
| Endonym | Anpanola [an.pa.no.la] |
| Exonym | Common Amorian |
| Number of speakers | 1 |
| Technical information | |
| Language code | APL |
 Notice: | This article is a work in progress, as I can't put it all down in one sitting because I don't have time to do so. |
Example Sentence
Dciludaylahbveley: Beugeuninycangeneuleylaygehjeyyehneymeucnini. DakinelahbveleymaynpahntamBeugeunaynycangeneulyjbeugeuleunaylumaytamhybyneum mingi ehniramahaymeucnileunydugigehjayaneuhay.
twelfth-and-third-box-ART.DEF.SING.M.NOM: Burger-ART.NDEF.N.SING.NOM-king-POSS-ART.DEF.M.SING.NOM-leaf-ART.NDEF.M.SING.NOM-foot-ART.NDEF.N.SING.NOM last-box-ART.DEF.M.SING.NOM-which-in-2P-Burger-ART.NDEF.N.SING.DAT-king-POSS-ART.DEF.M.SING.DAT-burger-POSS-ART.NDEF.N.SING.DAT-and-which-2P-want<COND> be<PFV> foreigner-ART.NDEF.F.SING.ACC-foot-POSS-ART.NDEF.N.SING.ACC-mushroom-POSS-ART.NDEF.F.SING.ACC
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Common Amorian is the language of the commonfolk of Amoria. It is a language in the Lomaryn subfamily and one of three Lomaryn languages spoken on Ngearth, one of the others being its very close (and endangered) relative Aristoamorian.
Grammar
Morphology & Syntax
Common Amorian uses the "Hyperactive" morphosyntactic alignment, meaning Agents (A) and Agentive Subjects (Sₐ) use the same case and declensions, while Patients (P) and Patientive Subjects (Sₚ) each have their own cases and declensions. The cases used in Amorian are nominative (A and Sₐ), accusative (P), and allegative (Sₚ). Each of these three cases, as well as the dative case, change the ending of a word. Word endings also depend on the gender of the word, which is variable in some words and constant in others. The four grammatical genders of Common Amorian are Masculine, Feminine, Trinary, and Divine.
Word Order
By default, Common Amorian uses SVO word order. The only exception is when the interrogative mood is used, which changes the word order to SOV. Common Amorian puts its adjectives before its nouns and possessors before possessees. Adpositions always go at the beginning of a sentence or clause.
Verb Conjugations
Verbs in Common Amorian have seven different conjugations, not counting the infinitive. Verbs conjugate to be placed in the perfect, imperfective, perfective, progressive, and habitual aspects, the optative mood, or to convey what English conveys with the verb "can". To express tense, verbs take one of three prefixes for either the past, near past, or future, or do not take any affixes for the present.
Agglutination & Fusion
Common Amorian has extreme amounts of morpheme fusion and agglutination. It could be considered a polysynthetic language by someone more experienced in linguistics, but no such person has analyzed the language as of now. Verbs function as the hearts of sentences; subjects attach in front of verbs and objects behind.